Knitting needle



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Patented Jan. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES EUGENE HENRI MARIE EMILE DURAND, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

KNITTING NEEDLE.

Application filed August 24, 1.923. Serial No. 659,229.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE HENRI MARIE Emu-1 DURAND, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Paris, Department of Seine, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitting Needles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in needles for knitting machines, and more particularly in those of the type called lat-ch needles, for the purpose of making it possible at will during the course of manufacture of a knitted article to transfer the loops from a certain number of needles to the adjoining needles by means of simple movements and without the assistance of intermediate apparatus such as transfer punches.

These improvements chiefly consist in providing in an ordinary'knitting or frame needle a recess adapted to receive a part (head or hook) of a second similar needle constituting, with the first one, a deformable unit of sufficient thinness and smoothness at its working part, in such a manner that the mesh or loop formed on the first needle can successively slide from the latter on to the unit formed by it and the second needle-on which there may or may not be a loop alreadythe head of said second needle having been inserted in the recess provided in the first needle, and remain on the second one.

In order to make the following explanation clearer, the accompanying drawing shows by way of example a knitting. or frame needle provided with the improvements according to the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved needle, of which Figure 2 is a back View, and Figure 3 a section on line-33, Fig. 1. Figures 4 to 8 show the respective positions of the two needles during the landing operation. I

m is the shank of an ordinary knitting needle. This shank may have a heel b or any other suitable driving device, a, hook a and a tumbler or latch d.

As already stated at the beginning of the present specification, the essential characteristic of the invention consists in a recess provided in the needle and intended to receive a second needle similar to the preceding one. This recess is shown at e, and the outline of the second needle n is shown in Figure 1, in dotted lines, it being understood of course that the said second needle can occupy various positions either above or below that shown, without coming out of the recess 0.

The said recess 6 must not in any way be confused with the recess 9 for the play of the latch 01, which recess in the ordinary knittin needle scarcely reaches the back of the nee la.

The position of the above mentioned recess e such as it is shown in the drawing, now seems to be the most advantageous one when it is a question of latch needles.

The device just described is utilized in the following manner:

Assuming that there are two adjoining needles m and n occupying the position shown in Figure 4 where they pass exactl one behind the other, the loops 0 and p u l on the fabric '9 which is securely hel in place by any desired means, for instance by means of a comb. The needle m is raised whilst the needle n is brought behind the preceding one (Figure 5) as shown on a larger scale in Figure 1.

The upward movement of the needle m continuin the movement of the needle n is started; t e latter will get into the loop 0 which is drawn downwards by the whole of the fabric and has left the hook of the needle m in orderto pass on the shank (Figure 6). If now the needle m is lowered whilst the needle 11. continues to rise, the loop 0 will passfrom the hook of the needle n on to the shank of the same, whilst the loop. 72 will close the latch of the descending needle m (Figure 7) which will finally escape from its loop which it will leave on the shank of the needle 'n, by the side of the loop which 15 already there (Figure 8).

The transfer of the loop from a needle to the next one (whether the latter-has or has not its own 100 will thus have been effected without an intermediate apparatus, which is the object of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. A latch needle, having a hook at one end, a recess at the foot of the hook, and a latch mounted in said recess; said needle beingalso formed with a second recess which is located immediately adjacent the first recess but is independent thereof, and which is designed to receive the hook of a second second needle when the first needle is withneedle similar to, and extending in the same 10 direction as, the first one, thereby to enable l ch needle, accordlng to claim 1, the inter-fitted ends of the two needles to m whlch the second-named recess 18 r d jointly constitute a relatively thin and in the back of the needle directly pp smooth deformable unit onto which a loop the first needlev formed on the first needle may slide there- In testimeny whereof I y Signaturefrom, such loop b'eing thereafter left on the NE HENRI MARIE l-ZIILE DURAND. 

